Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh remains highly flammable - PACE president

  23 January 2017    Read: 1734
Situation in Nagorno-Karabakh remains highly flammable - PACE president
In April 2016, there was a dangerous escalation of hostilities on the contact line in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, and the situation there still remains highly flammable, PACE President Pedro Agramunt said on Monday.

“From Europe`s long and turbulent history, we have learned that conflicts cannot be resolved by military means. Our role as parliamentarians is crucial to achieve this,” Agramunt said addressing the opening of the PACE part-session in Strasbourg, AzVision.az reported.

“Parliamentary diplomacy is an important tool for dialogue and our Assembly must use its potential to the full,” Agramunt noted.

In early April 2016, all the frontier positions of Azerbaijan were subjected to heavy fire from the Armenian side, which used large-caliber weapons, mortars and grenade launchers. Azerbaijan responded with a counter-attack, which led to liberation of several strategic heights and settlements.

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